Are Medical and Healthcare Education Accreditors Abandoning DEI?

In March 2025, Do No Harm released a report examining how medical and healthcare education accreditors, through accreditation requirements, coerce medical and healthcare education programs to implement diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

Given that failing to comply with accreditation standards may pose existential risks to such programs, accreditors wield tremendous power over programs’ policies and operations. This makes the insertion of DEI into accreditation expectations all the more concerning.

Requirements identified in Do No Harm’s report ranged from mandates that programs implement DEI trainings to requirements that programs implement policies altering the racial composition of the student body. The latter of these standards strongly incentivized medical and healthcare education programs to racially discriminate to achieve these diversity targets.

However, in just a few short months following our report, the accreditation landscape surrounding medical and healthcare education has changed – dramatically.

Continue reading the full report below.